Fallen (Being rewritten - Sorry about the wait!)

Birth

With a gasp my eyes snap open. A pearly white meets them as far as I can see. I soon become conscious of an unrelenting pressure against me and I sit up with a yawn and gasp, clutching a thin silk slip tighter around me. The air is freezing! It was as if it had the touch of Death and it was my time to go. I smile, finding the thought strange, but amusing. Blinking, I take in my surroundings as if I had all the time in the world.

I was sitting on a wide, pearly white and pink walkway, abysses of unmeasurable depth on either side.

I shudder, trying to not think about what would happen if I fell.

I shrug off my fear, my attention caught by the seemingly endless rows of pillars on either side. Short, thick, black pillars rose out of the abyss in a solitary file on my left. Tall, thin, snowy white ones hung suspended from an endless sky.

"Where am I?" I wonder aloud.

"You're in the choosing hall." I was so absorbed by the strange pillars I didn't see the tall man standing a couple of feet in front of me. His wavy, golden blond hair swept carelessly over his blue eyes, eyes that held no feeling. He glared at me coldly, making me quake and tremble. I couldn't see a wrinkle in his dark blue suit, his crimson-swirled tie was tucked beneath a vest. A light pink kerchief stuck out of his left breast pocket with a starchy rigidness.

"What do you want? What's the choosing hall? Where am I?" I ask him the first things that cross my mind.

"I am here to help you choose whether or not you will become a fallen angel or a heavenly one. The choosing hall is where you will make this important decision. The choice on whether you'll go to the dark realm or the light realm is pretty much already decided. It depends on what sort of wish or deed you were created from. And you already asked where you are, which, if you remember, I answered not one minute ago." Came the cold, haughty, reply.

"What's an angel? Was I created? If I was created would that mean I'm an angel? Is the dark realm bad? Or is it the light one? Who created me? What are the pros and cons of each?" These are only a few of the torrent of questions that filled my mind.

"Great angels above, I hate the inquisitive ones! Why am I always the one that gets them? Why can't I get easy ones, ones that don't ask questions and do as they're told and just accept the fact that they are here?" The man groans, seeming to have forgotten I was there.

I'm about to open my mouth and tell him I'm still here, but somebody beat me to it.

"Just answer the fledgling's questions Clyde." The soft, almost purring voice told the man, Clyde, from behind me.

I snap my head in his direction and gasp once more. Although he wasn't as tall as Clyde, he was still fairly tall. Taller than me, I think, but I wouldn't know for sure since I haven't stood yet. While Clyde had hair the color of gold, this one's had the color of finely spun silver. Unlike Clyde's eyes, his gray ones had a hint of humor and mirth. His mouth twisted into a lopsided smile. Large black wings spread out behind him, which he slowly folds behind his back. A gray stripped scarf dangled from his neck and his hands were tucked in the front pocket of his light gray hoodie. His sneakers made squeaking noises as he walked towards us.

"Daniel, how nice of you to stop by..." Clyde's voice was even icier than when he looked at me and the freezing air combined.

"Ah, that's no way to treat an old friend, now is it?" Daniel pretended to be hurt, but before long he was grinning just like before.

"You're no friend of mine! You turned! You betrayed everything you knew and worst of all you betrayed me! We sw-"

"Now, now. Let's not overwhelm the poor thing, she must be tired and confused." Daniel didn't seem ruffled in the slightest bit from Clyde's onslaught of fury. He turns towards me and offers me his hand.

"Do you want help getting up? It can be kinda hard for the first time."

I timidly take his hand and he heaves me to my feet. I'm only a few inches shorter than him. Daniel whistles.

"I'm a bit envious, Clyde. You got a pretty one!"

I feel blood rush to my cheeks. Did Daniel just say I was pretty? I'm still new to this strange world, but I'm not sure if that's something you should say to someone you just met.

"Thank you, but I still have unanswered questions." I gently remind him.

"Of course! I'll take over now, that is if you don't mind, Clyde." Daniel raises his eyebrow.

"Of course not!" Clyde snaps and roughly grabs my arm. "You'll only trick the child." Clyde shields me from Daniel and starts to roughly push me towards the other end of the hall, away from Daniel.

"Don't pay any attention to him." Clyde growls in my ear. "He's bad news. You'd do best to ignore him."

We walk in silence after that, my mind too busy trying to wrap around all these new things. After what seemed like an eternity we reached the end, where a tall, skinny, wooden door stood by itself.

"The hallway we just walked through is called the hallway of eternity, if you were looking at the walls you would have seen tapestries, cave paintings, photographs, and any other way to show pictures hanging in-between the pillars showing every era there ever was. This door is called the door of Knowledge. It's actually made from the tree of good and evil, the very same tree that Adam and Eve partook of its fruit and was cast out of the garden of Eden because of it." He paused, as if to make all of this more dramatic.

"What happens when you go through it?" I ask nervously. If something scary or bad happened, then I didn't want to do it, and I wasn't really worried about Clyde's displeasure. He seems to be displeased with me already, so anything I may or may not do would have now effect on his relationship with me.

"When you pass through this door you'll need to go alone. I can only pass through it once, and I already did at my seeking ceremony." Clyde holds up his hand, stopping me from asking what a 'seeking ceremony' was. "A seeking ceremony is where you discover your name and where you will go. The door itself is more symbolic than anything, it's the discovery mirror that will tell you your past, present, and future. Everything you see will be engraved upon your mind. When you come out you will tell me your name and where you will go, whether it be the light realm or the dark one. Do you understand?"

I nod, gulping. So this is where I figure out who I am. This will be the most important thing I will ever do in my life. Am I ready? Will I be able to handle such an onslaught of knowledge?

"You'll do fine. You're ready. There are very few fledglings that can do it so soon, why for some it even takes years!" Clyde reassures me and quickly adds to it when he sees my puzzled look. "You were thinking aloud."

"Oh..." I take a deep breath and turn around. "If I'm so special then I need to take advantage of this occasion."

I'm about to open the door and go find myself, when Daniel rushes up to us.

"You can't go in there!" He cries.

"Why not?" I ask warily.

"Because the room is cursed!"